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<blockquote data-quote="vin" data-source="post: 185143" data-attributes="member: 9475"><p>The company's reaction has varied widely just in my hub depending on the severity and circumstances of the event. Around the time I started several of the vending machines were being broken into and looted. Every once in a while the machine would try to dispense a product but it would get stuck by a corner and not drop down. People would try to shake the machine or bang on the glass in order to get it to drop. Bang on glass too hard or too long and it will break and it did. After this happened a few times, the company put in video cameras pointed at the vending machines. The next time it happened, everyone (including several supervisors) who took something out of the broken machine without paying for it was fired. (more than 20 people total) Most of them only took a snack or two and they were fired. All of this was unnecessary since all the person had to do was fill out a refund request from the vendor, and they would get their money back in a day or two.</p><p></p><p>More recently, plant engineering has been installing video cameras in the operation itself. Now there are signs all over the building announcing "This facility is subject to electronic surveillance." There have been a few instances recently where the employees <em>knew</em> they were being monitored and were still caught stealing. (The "high security" areas were the first to get the cameras and the employees working in those areas were told about the cameras although not told exactly where they were.) Inmost of the cases I have heard of, after the employee was caught on film stealing, he was given the option of quitting, with no charges filed. If he refused, the company fired him anyway and did press charges. The union wasn't able to get anyone's job back that I am aware of.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vin, post: 185143, member: 9475"] The company's reaction has varied widely just in my hub depending on the severity and circumstances of the event. Around the time I started several of the vending machines were being broken into and looted. Every once in a while the machine would try to dispense a product but it would get stuck by a corner and not drop down. People would try to shake the machine or bang on the glass in order to get it to drop. Bang on glass too hard or too long and it will break and it did. After this happened a few times, the company put in video cameras pointed at the vending machines. The next time it happened, everyone (including several supervisors) who took something out of the broken machine without paying for it was fired. (more than 20 people total) Most of them only took a snack or two and they were fired. All of this was unnecessary since all the person had to do was fill out a refund request from the vendor, and they would get their money back in a day or two. More recently, plant engineering has been installing video cameras in the operation itself. Now there are signs all over the building announcing "This facility is subject to electronic surveillance." There have been a few instances recently where the employees [I]knew[/I] they were being monitored and were still caught stealing. (The "high security" areas were the first to get the cameras and the employees working in those areas were told about the cameras although not told exactly where they were.) Inmost of the cases I have heard of, after the employee was caught on film stealing, he was given the option of quitting, with no charges filed. If he refused, the company fired him anyway and did press charges. The union wasn't able to get anyone's job back that I am aware of. [/QUOTE]
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